Evry- France -- One of the largest industrial camera manufacturer, Imaging Development Systems (IDS – www.ids-imaging.de) has announced the introduction of a new camera which incorporates a NIT MAGIC CMOS sensor.

In a move to differentiate its product range and always offer the best available technology, IDS has chosen to work closely with NIT, and has finally selected the MD1-10-B Logarithmic sensor for the design of its latest high-dynamic-range (HDR) uEye camera.

This true logarithmic sensor developed by NIT uses an array of photodiodes operated in photovoltaic mode. In most logarithmic imager designs, linear photo current passes through a MOS transistor whose exponential characteristic transforms the photo current into a logarithmic-like voltage output signal.

In NIT’s MAGIC approach, the array of photodiodes is operated in photovoltaic mode and the open-circuit voltage across the p/n junction is proportional to the exact and pure logarithmic value of the incident light intensity.

IDS used the NIT imager for machine-vision camera applications. NIT MD1-10-B-web.jpg also provides the MCD1-10-BW, an analog camera module that uses the HDR imager.

The MCD1-10-BW modules are equipped with the MD1-10-B Log sensor which provides extraordinary dynamic range performance greater than 120 dB.

MD1-10-B provides a pure logarithmic response without noticeable fixed pattern noise.

In addition to the extraordinary wide dynamic range, the MD1-10-B from NIT is immune to light variations, which occurs in typical outdoor scenes.

To learn more about this topic, this alliance concept and the technological advances of the NIT’s products, a complete article written by Andy WILSON from VSD magazine is available atwww.new-imaging-technologies.com/ArticleNIT-VSD_Jan.2010_LR.pdf

New Imaging Technologies (NIT) SAS is a spin-off from the French National Telecommunication Institute. Lead by Professor Yang NI, the research team has worked since 1991 on CMOS smart imaging devices for a large variety of scientific, industrial, automotive, biometrics and also optical communications applications. It aims to provide world class design of CMOS optical and imaging sensors to industrial, research, medical and defense organizations around the globe.

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